Microsoft
Microsoft employees aren’t just comparing salaries this year, they’re comparing how much AI they use.An internal spreadsheet viewed by Business Insider shows hundreds of employees voluntarily reporting not only their raises, bonuses, and stock awards, but also the dollar value of the AI tools they used over the past month.…
Microsoft AI’s chief marketing officer, Andréa Mallard, started transitioning out of her post about six months after being appointed to the role, Business Insider has learned.In an internal email, Microsoft announced that Mallard, who joined Microsoft’s AI unit from Pinterest in January, plans to leave the company.In the June 30…
Microsoft’s latest earnings were as much about reassurance as results.In a memo to employees after the company reported quarterly earnings, CFO Amy Hood pointed to Azure’s growth and Copilot’s momentum as evidence that Microsoft’s biggest AI bets are paying off, even as the company spends tens of billions of dollars…
Mercor’s interview process is less vibe coding, more whiteboarding. On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released on Saturday, Mercor’s head of product, Osvald Nitski, said that the AI training company has moved away from take-home assignments that can be completed with AI.”We’ll do one round where we find out…
In his first-ever post on X, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called attention to how some of the biggest names in AI and tech are rallying together to defend the future of open-weight AI models.”AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country,” Huang wrote on…
A year ago, OpenAI seemed like it had an untouchable lead in the AI race.It was by far the dominant AI platform for consumers. Competitors like Meta were scrambling — and spending a gazillion dollars on new hires — to catch up. Sam Altman had enough cash, and clout, to…
